PNAS Table of Contents for May 4, 2021; Vol. 118, No. 18 is now complete

[PNAS] [PNAS Opinion: Past is future for the era of COVID-19 research in the social sciences](/cgi/adclick/?ad=55818&adclick=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pnas.org%2Fcontent%2F118%2F13%2Fe2104155118)   [May 4, 2021; Vol. 118, No. 18]( ) This Week in PNAS [In This Issue]( This week's research highlights --------------------------------------------------------------- Commentaries [Setting molecular traps in yeast for identification of anticancer drug targets]( Grant W. Brown and Brenda Andrews [CD317 puts the brakes on dendritic cell trafficking to the CNS]( Sarah E. Barnes and May H. Han [Understanding why we do what we do during a global pandemic]( Sandro Galea [An ABC transporter of the ABCC subfamily localized at the plasma membrane confers glyphosate resistance]( Nikolaus Amrhein and Enrico Martinoia --------------------------------------------------------------- Letters [Evolutionarily stable strategies are well studied in periodically fluctuating populations]( Alex Best and Ben Ashby [Reply to Best and Ashby: The concept of evolutionarily stable strategies (ESS) helps link ecology and evolution]( Katrin Grunert, Helge Holden, Espen R. Jakobsen, and Nils Chr. Stenseth [Epistasis produces an excess of invariant sites in neutral molecular evolution]( Ravi Patel and Sudhir Kumar [Reply to Patel and Kumar: Epistasis not critical to rate distributions but key in heterotachy, overdispersion, and evolutionary Stokes shift]( Jose Alberto de la Paz and Faruck Morcos --------------------------------------------------------------- Brief Reports [COVID-19 lockdowns show reduced pollution on snow and ice in the Indus River Basin]( Edward Bair, Timbo Stillinger, Karl Rittger, and McKenzie Skiles [Educational attainment does not influence brain aging]( Lars Nyberg, Fredrik Magnussen, Anders Lundquist, William Baaré, David Bartrés-Faz, Lars Bertram, C. J. Boraxbekk, Andreas M. Brandmaier, Christian A. Drevon, Klaus Ebmeier, Paolo Ghisletta, Richard N. Henson, Carme Junqué, Rogier Kievit, Maike Kleemeyer, Ethan Knights, Simone Kühn, Ulman Lindenberger, Brenda W. J. H. Penninx, Sara Pudas, Øystein Sørensen, Lídia Vaqué-Alcázar, Kristine B. Walhovd, and Anders M. Fjell [Divergent low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) linked to low VSV G-dependent viral infectivity and unique serum lipid profile in zebra finches]( Tarciso A. F. Velho, Peter V. Lovell, Samantha R. Friedrich, Christopher R. Olson, Joshua Miles, Paul A. Mueller, Hagai Tavori, Sergio Fazio, Carlos Lois, and Claudio V. Mello [Global and country-level estimates of human population at high altitude]( Joshua C. Tremblay and Philip N. Ainslie --------------------------------------------------------------- Physical Sciences Applied Physical Sciences [Solar anti-icing surface with enhanced condensate self-removing at extreme environmental conditions]( Hongqiang Zhang, Guanlei Zhao, Shuwang Wu, Yousif Alsaid, Wenzheng Zhao, Xiao Yan, Lei Liu, Guisheng Zou, Jianyong Lv, Ximin He, Zhiyuan He, and Jianjun Wang Biophysics and Computational Biology [Comparing metapopulation dynamics of infectious diseases under different models of human movement]( Daniel T. Citron, Carlos A. Guerra, Andrew J. Dolgert, Sean L. Wu, John M. Henry, Héctor M. Sánchez C., and David L. Smith [Improved bounds on entropy production in living systems]( Dominic J. Skinner and Jörn Dunkel [Threshold accumulation of a constitutive protein explains E. coli cell-division behavior in nutrient upshifts]( Mia Panlilio, Jacopo Grilli, Giorgio Tallarico, Ilaria Iuliani, Bianca Sclavi, Pietro Cicuta, and Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino [Communication consumes 35 times more energy than computation in the human cortex, but both costs are needed to predict synapse number]( William B Levy and Victoria G. Calvert Chemistry [A Sos proteomimetic as a pan-Ras inhibitor]( Seong Ho Hong, Daniel Y. Yoo, Louis Conway, Khyle C. Richards-Corke, Christopher G. Parker, and Paramjit S. Arora [Genome-wide toxicogenomic study of the lanthanides sheds light on the selective toxicity mechanisms associated with critical materials]( Roger M. Pallares, David Faulkner, Dahlia D. An, Solène Hébert, Alex Loguinov, Michael Proctor, Jonathan A. Villalobos, Kathleen A. Bjornstad, Chris J. Rosen, Christopher Vulpe, and Rebecca J. Abergel Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences [Redox control on the tungsten isotope composition of seawater]( Florian Kurzweil, Corey Archer, Martin Wille, Ronny Schoenberg, Carsten Münker, and Olaf Dellwig [Warm early Mars surface enabled by high-altitude water ice clouds]( Edwin S. Kite, Liam J. Steele, Michael A. Mischna, and Mark I. Richardson [Active sites for ice nucleation differ depending on nucleation mode]( Mark A. Holden, James M. Campbell, Fiona C. Meldrum, Benjamin J. Murray, and Hugo K. Christenson [Thermal niches of planktonic foraminifera are static throughout glacial–interglacial climate change]( Gwen S. Antell, Isabel S. Fenton, Paul J. Valdes, and Erin E. Saupe Engineering [A high-throughput microfluidic nanoimmunoassay for detecting anti–SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in serum or ultralow-volume blood samples]( Zoe Swank, Grégoire Michielin, Hon Ming Yip, Patrick Cohen, Diego O. Andrey, Nicolas Vuilleumier, Laurent Kaiser, Isabella Eckerle, Benjamin Meyer, and Sebastian J. Maerkl [Spontaneous formation of multilayer refractory carbide coatings in a molten salt media]( Loic Constantin, Lisha Fan, Mathilde Pouey, Jérôme Roger, Bai Cui, Jean-François Silvain, and Yong Feng Lu [Transfer-printed, tandem microscale light-emitting diodes for full-color displays]( Lizhu Li, Guo Tang, Zhao Shi, He Ding, Changbo Liu, Dali Cheng, Qianyi Zhang, Lan Yin, Zhibo Yao, Lian Duan, Donghao Zhang, Chenggong Wang, Meixin Feng, Qian Sun, Qiang Wang, Yanjun Han, Lai Wang, Yi Luo, and Xing Sheng Physics [Circular swimming motility and disordered hyperuniform state in an algae system]( Mingji Huang, Wensi Hu, Siyuan Yang, Quan-Xing Liu, and H. P. Zhang [Manipulating Berry curvature of SrRuO3 thin films via epitaxial strain]( Di Tian, Zhiwei Liu, Shengchun Shen, Zhuolu Li, Yu Zhou, Hongquan Liu, Hanghui Chen, and Pu Yu [A direct link between active matter and sheared granular systems]( Peter K. Morse, Sudeshna Roy, Elisabeth Agoritsas, Ethan Stanifer, Eric I. Corwin, and M. Lisa Manning [Experimental test of a predicted dynamics–structure–thermodynamics connection in molecularly complex glass-forming liquids]( Baicheng Mei, Yuxing Zhou, and Kenneth S. Schweizer [Coupled oscillation and spinning of photothermal particles in Marangoni optical traps]( Hyunki Kim, Subramanian Sundaram, Ji-Hwan Kang, Nabila Tanjeem, Todd Emrick, and Ryan C. Hayward --------------------------------------------------------------- Social Sciences Anthropology [Loss of resilience preceded transformations of pre-Hispanic Pueblo societies]( Marten Scheffer, Egbert H. van Nes, Darcy Bird, R. Kyle Bocinsky, and Timothy A. Kohler [Molecular analysis of black coatings and anointing fluids from ancient Egyptian coffins, mummy cases, and funerary objects]( Kate Fulcher, Margaret Serpico, John H. Taylor, and Rebecca Stacey Economic Sciences [Global inequality remotely sensed]( M. Usman Mirza, Chi Xu, Bas van Bavel, Egbert H. van Nes, and Marten Scheffer Psychological and Cognitive Sciences [The predictive utility of word familiarity for online engagements and funding]( David M. Markowitz and Hillary C. Shulman [Supporting social hierarchy is associated with White police officers’ use of force]( Jillian K. Swencionis, Enrique R. Pouget, and Phillip Atiba Goff Social Sciences [Precision mapping child undernutrition for nearly 600,000 inhabited census villages in India]( Rockli Kim, Avleen S. Bijral, Yun Xu, Xiuyuan Zhang, Jeffrey C. Blossom, Akshay Swaminathan, Gary King, Alok Kumar, Rakesh Sarwal, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, and S. V. Subramanian Sustainability Science [Loss of resilience preceded transformations of pre-Hispanic Pueblo societies]( Marten Scheffer, Egbert H. van Nes, Darcy Bird, R. Kyle Bocinsky, and Timothy A. Kohler [Global inequality remotely sensed]( M. Usman Mirza, Chi Xu, Bas van Bavel, Egbert H. van Nes, and Marten Scheffer [Environmental and economic concerns surrounding restrictions on glyphosate use in corn]( Ziwei Ye, Felicia Wu, and David A. Hennessy --------------------------------------------------------------- Biological Sciences Agricultural Sciences [Environmental and economic concerns surrounding restrictions on glyphosate use in corn]( Ziwei Ye, Felicia Wu, and David A. Hennessy Applied Biological Sciences [Genome-wide toxicogenomic study of the lanthanides sheds light on the selective toxicity mechanisms associated with critical materials]( Roger M. Pallares, David Faulkner, Dahlia D. An, Solène Hébert, Alex Loguinov, Michael Proctor, Jonathan A. Villalobos, Kathleen A. Bjornstad, Chris J. Rosen, Christopher Vulpe, and Rebecca J. Abergel [A multi-omics approach to lignocellulolytic enzyme discovery reveals a new ligninase activity from Parascedosporium putredinis NO1]( Nicola C. Oates, Amira Abood, Alexandra M. Schirmacher, Anna M. Alessi, Susannah M. Bird, Joseph P. Bennett, Daniel R. Leadbeater, Yi Li, Adam A. Dowle, Sarah Liu, Vitaliy I. Tymokhin, John Ralph, Simon J. McQueen-Mason, and Neil C. Bruce Biochemistry [A Sos proteomimetic as a pan-Ras inhibitor]( Seong Ho Hong, Daniel Y. Yoo, Louis Conway, Khyle C. Richards-Corke, Christopher G. Parker, and Paramjit S. Arora [Structure and activity of SLAC1 channels for stomatal signaling in leaves]( Ya-nan Deng, Hamdy Kashtoh, Quan Wang, Guang-xiao Zhen, Qi-yu Li, Ling-hui Tang, Hai-long Gao, Chun-rui Zhang, Li Qin, Min Su, Fei Li, Xia-he Huang, Ying-chun Wang, Qi Xie, Oliver B. Clarke, Wayne A. Hendrickson, and Yu-hang Chen [Nucleic acid ligands act as a PAM and agonist depending on the intrinsic ligand binding state of P2RY2]( Masaki Takahashi, Ryo Amano, Michiru Ozawa, Anna Martinez, Kazumasa Akita, and Yoshikazu Nakamura Biophysics and Computational Biology [NMR unveils an N-terminal interaction interface on acetylated-α-synuclein monomers for recruitment to fibrils]( Xue Yang, Baifan Wang, Cody L. Hoop, Jonathan K. Williams, and Jean Baum Cell Biology [Threshold accumulation of a constitutive protein explains E. coli cell-division behavior in nutrient upshifts]( Mia Panlilio, Jacopo Grilli, Giorgio Tallarico, Ilaria Iuliani, Bianca Sclavi, Pietro Cicuta, and Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino [Endothelial cell invasion is controlled by dactylopodia]( Ana Martins Figueiredo, Pedro Barbacena, Ana Russo, Silvia Vaccaro, Daniela Ramalho, Andreia Pena, Aida Pires Lima, Rita Rua Ferreira, Marta Alves Fidalgo, Fatima El-Marjou, Yulia Carvalho, Francisca Ferreira Vasconcelos, Ana-Maria Lennon-Duménil, Danijela Matic Vignjevic, and Claudio Areias Franco Ecology [Comparing metapopulation dynamics of infectious diseases under different models of human movement]( Daniel T. Citron, Carlos A. Guerra, Andrew J. Dolgert, Sean L. Wu, John M. Henry, Héctor M. Sánchez C., and David L. Smith [Thermal niches of planktonic foraminifera are static throughout glacial–interglacial climate change]( Gwen S. Antell, Isabel S. Fenton, Paul J. Valdes, and Erin E. Saupe [Adaptive differentiation and rapid evolution of a soil bacterium along a climate gradient]( Alexander B. Chase, Claudia Weihe, and Jennifer B. H. Martiny Environmental Sciences [Physical mixing in coastal waters controls and decouples nitrification via biomass dilution]( Sebastian Haas, Brent M. Robicheau, Subhadeep Rakshit, Jennifer Tolman, Christopher K. Algar, Julie LaRoche, and Douglas W. R. Wallace Evolution [Production, composition, and mode of action of the painful defensive venom produced by a limacodid caterpillar, Doratifera vulnerans]( Andrew A. Walker, Samuel D. Robinson, Jean-Paul V. Paluzzi, David J. Merritt, Samantha A. Nixon, Christina I. Schroeder, Jiayi Jin, Mohaddeseh Hedayati Goudarzi, Andrew C. Kotze, Zoltan Dekan, Andy Sombke, Paul F. Alewood, Bryan G. Fry, Marc E. Epstein, Irina Vetter, and Glenn F. King [Integration drives rapid phenotypic evolution in flatfishes]( Kory M. Evans, Olivier Larouche, Sara-Jane Watson, Stacy Farina, María Laura Habegger, and Matt Friedman [Multigenerational exposure to warming and fishing causes recruitment collapse, but size diversity and periodic cooling can aid recovery]( Henry F. Wootton, Asta Audzijonyte, and John Morrongiello Immunology and Inflammation [Acquisition of optimal TFH cell function is defined by specific molecular, positional, and TCR dynamic signatures]( Kartika Padhan, Eirini Moysi, Alessandra Noto, Alexander Chassiakos, Khader Ghneim, Maria Maddalena Perra, Sanjana Shah, Vasilis Papaioannou, Giulia Fabozzi, David R. Ambrozak, Antigoni Poultsidi, Maria Ioannou, Craig Fenwick, Samuel Darko, Daniel C. Douek, Rafick-Pierre Sekaly, Giuseppe Pantaleo, Richard A. Koup, and Constantinos Petrovas [Blood–brain barrier opening by intracarotid artery hyperosmolar mannitol induces sterile inflammatory and innate immune responses]( Scott R. Burks, Cymon N. Kersch, Jaclyn A. Witko, Michael A. Pagel, Maggie Sundby, Leslie L. Muldoon, Edward A. Neuwelt, and Joseph A. Frank [ADAM9 enhances Th17 cell differentiation and autoimmunity by activating TGF-β1]( Masataka Umeda, Nobuya Yoshida, Ryo Hisada, Catalina Burbano, Seo Yeon K. Orite, Michihito Kono, Vasileios C. Kyttaris, Suzanne Krishfield, Caroline A. Owen, and George C. Tsokos Medical Sciences [A high-throughput microfluidic nanoimmunoassay for detecting anti–SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in serum or ultralow-volume blood samples]( Zoe Swank, Grégoire Michielin, Hon Ming Yip, Patrick Cohen, Diego O. Andrey, Nicolas Vuilleumier, Laurent Kaiser, Isabella Eckerle, Benjamin Meyer, and Sebastian J. Maerkl [Aberrant epithelial polarity cues drive the development of precancerous airway lesions]( Andrew Tilston-Lunel, Sarah Mazzilli, Nathan M. Kingston, Aleksander D. Szymaniak, Julia Hicks-Berthet, Joseph G. Kern, Kristine Abo, Mary E. Reid, Catalina Perdomo, Andrew A. Wilson, Avrum Spira, Jennifer Beane, and Xaralabos Varelas Microbiology [Killed whole-genome reduced-bacteria surface-expressed coronavirus fusion peptide vaccines protect against disease in a porcine model]( Denicar Lina Nascimento Fabris Maeda, Debin Tian, Hanna Yu, Nakul Dar, Vignesh Rajasekaran, Sarah Meng, Hassan M. Mahsoub, Harini Sooryanarain, Bo Wang, C. Lynn Heffron, Anna Hassebroek, Tanya LeRoith, Xiang-Jin Meng, and Steven L. Zeichner [An intracellular nanobody targeting T4SS effector inhibits Ehrlichia infection]( Wenqing Zhang, Mingqun Lin, Qi Yan, Khemraj Budachetri, Libo Hou, Ashweta Sahni, Hongyan Liu, Nien-Ching Han, Jeffrey Lakritz, Dehua Pei, and Yasuko Rikihisa [Host barriers to SARS-CoV-2 demonstrated by ferrets in a high-exposure domestic setting]( Kaitlin Sawatzki, Nichola J. Hill, Wendy B. Puryear, Alexa D. Foss, Jonathon J. Stone, and Jonathan A. Runstadler [High-throughput functional variant screens via in vivo production of single-stranded DNA]( Max G. Schubert, Daniel B. Goodman, Timothy M. Wannier, Divjot Kaur, Fahim Farzadfard, Timothy K. Lu, Seth L. Shipman, and George M. Church [Fitness selection of hyperfusogenic measles virus F proteins associated with neuropathogenic phenotypes]( Satoshi Ikegame, Takao Hashiguchi, Chuan-Tien Hung, Kristina Dobrindt, Kristen J. Brennand, Makoto Takeda, and Benhur Lee [Anaerobic gut fungi are an untapped reservoir of natural products]( Candice L. Swift, Katherine B. Louie, Benjamin P. Bowen, Heather M. Olson, Samuel O. Purvine, Asaf Salamov, Stephen J. Mondo, Kevin V. Solomon, Aaron T. Wright, Trent R. Northen, Igor V. Grigoriev, Nancy P. Keller, and Michelle A. O’Malley Neuroscience [Communication consumes 35 times more energy than computation in the human cortex, but both costs are needed to predict synapse number]( William B Levy and Victoria G. Calvert [Neuromodulator release in neurons requires two functionally redundant calcium sensors]( Rhodé van Westen, Josse Poppinga, Rocío Díez Arazola, Ruud F. Toonen, and Matthijs Verhage [Pinpointing the neural signatures of single-exposure visual recognition memory]( Vahid Mehrpour, Travis Meyer, Eero P. Simoncelli, and Nicole C. Rust [Cellular-resolution gene expression profiling in the neonatal marmoset brain reveals dynamic species- and region-specific differences]( Yoshiaki Kita, Hirozumi Nishibe, Yan Wang, Tsutomu Hashikawa, Satomi S. Kikuchi, Mami U, Aya C. Yoshida, Chihiro Yoshida, Takashi Kawase, Shin Ishii, Henrik Skibbe, and Tomomi Shimogori [Genetic removal of p70 S6K1 corrects coding sequence length-dependent alterations in mRNA translation in fragile X syndrome mice]( Sameer Aryal, Francesco Longo, and Eric Klann [Multiscale photonic imaging of the native and implanted cochlea]( Daniel Keppeler, Christoph A. Kampshoff, Anupriya Thirumalai, Carlos J. Duque-Afonso, Jannis J. Schaeper, Tabea Quilitz, Mareike Töpperwien, Christian Vogl, Roland Hessler, Alexander Meyer, Tim Salditt, and Tobias Moser [Impairment of the neurotrophic signaling hub B-Raf contributes to motoneuron degeneration in spinal muscular atrophy]( Niko Hensel, Federica Cieri, Pamela Santonicola, Ines Tapken, Tobias Schüning, Michela Taiana, Elisa Pagliari, Antonia Joseph, Silke Fischer, Natascha Heidrich, Hella Brinkmann, Sabrina Kubinski, Anke K. Bergmann, Manuela F. Richter, Klaus Jung, Stefania Corti, Elia Di Schiavi, and Peter Claus Physiology [Autoregulation of insulin receptor signaling through MFGE8 and the αvβ5 integrin]( Ritwik Datta, Carlos O. Lizama, Amin K. Soltani, William Mckleroy, Michael J. Podolsky, Christopher D. Yang, Tony L. Huynh, Kelly M. Cautivo, Biao Wang, Suneil K. Koliwad, Nada A. Abumrad, and Kamran Atabai Plant Biology [Rubisco proton production can drive the elevation of CO2 within condensates and carboxysomes]( Benedict M. Long, Britta Förster, Sacha B. Pulsford, G. Dean Price, and Murray R. Badger [Cover] --------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to {EMAIL}. [Unsubscribe]( from or [edit]( your subscription for this service. Or by mail: Customer Service * 15575-A Los Gatos Blvd * Los Gatos, CA 95032 * U.S.A. Copyright © 2021 by the National Academy of Sciences